On 2015-12-18 05:42, Axel Beckert wrote: > Since "IS" never was a very common abbreviation for "IT Support" > (usually just "IT" is used instead) and the abbreviation "IS" is > currently associated with a completely different (and politically hot) > topic, I strongly recommend to replace those four occurrences of "IS" > with "computer support" as in the other mail templates.
It was, and continues to be, a fairly common abbreviation for "Information Systems," as "MIS" became less popular and before a shift to "Information Technologies." While it's also poor shorthand for the longer acronyms ISIS and ISIL, it's also the country code for Iceland, as well as a common English word that a surprising number of English speakers use every day, despite the looming threat of Icelandic political activism. If you really prefer "Information Technologies" over "Information Systems" so strongly, you can always edit the templates yourself; you may wish to do so if it will save you the trouble of explaining to your users that they do not need to contact a small island nation for support. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
